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OAKLAND COUNTY, MI — Blow Harvey abatement efforts by Oakland Canton accept been continued through Saturday. Food can be alone off through 2 p.m. in the parking lot abaft the North Office Building (Building 26 East) on the canton government campus on Telegraph Road.
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Clean-up, hygiene, adolescent affliction and pet affliction items are of accurate need, according to Oakland Canton officials. Food, baptize and clothing, except for new socks, new underwear, and new flip-flops, are not actuality accustomed by the county.
"Those who accept donated so far assume absolutely heartened by our effort, so we appetite to extend the accumulating an added day abnormally for those who were clumsy to accomplish it out during the assignment week," said Oakland Canton Executive L. Brooks Patterson. "Oakland Canton cares about the blow victims in the Houston area."
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Donation are calm from 8 a.m. – 8 p.m. on Thursday and Friday, and amid 8 a.m. – 2 p.m. on Saturday. Go to OakGov.com/OaklandCares for a complete account of abundant bare items to accord and a map to the declivity location.
Deputy Canton Executive Phil Bertolini, whose brother retired beforehand this year from the Houston Police Department, is analogous the county's abatement effort.
"My brother John told me he was accustomed and ashamed by the access of abutment from Oakland County," Bertolini said.
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He said southeast Michigan companies accept stepped up to advice Oakland Canton with its accumulation drive, including Great Lakes Wine & Spirits, Home Depot in Pontiac, Lowe's food in White Lake and Bloomfield townships, PVS Chemicals, Inc., and Soave Enterprises. Oakland Canton will hit the alley to bear donated food the anniversary of Sept. 18 and bear them to a staging breadth appointed by Texas emergency administration officials.
Meanwhile, Congress is alive on a $15 billion abatement amalgamation for Blow Harvey victims, according to a Detroit Account report. A absolute of $7.4 billion was added by Congress to President Donald Trump's antecedent $7.4 billion request.
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Originally appear Sep 7, 2017.
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